55 PEOPLE FEARED DROWNED OFF YEMEN AFTER BEING FORCED FROM BOAT

55 PEOPLE FEARED DROWNED OFF YEMEN AFTER BEING FORCED FROM BOAT. International Organization for
Migration (IOM) staff assisting Somali and Ethiopian migrants, who were reportedly forced into the
sea by smugglers, on a beach in Shabwa, Yemen on August 10, 2017. Five migrants are dead and more
than 50 are missing after smugglers forced them from a boat off the coast of Yemen in the second
such drowning in two days, the UN migration agency said. IOM’s statement came less than a day after
it said up to 50 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia were “deliberately drowned” by a smuggler in a
separate boat off Yemen. Up to 180 migrants were forced from the boat on Thursday, Aug 10 morning,
the IOM said. Photo courtesy UN Migration Agency